Ask An Adventurer – Ask An Abomination
Hey gang! John’s computer is still under repair, but we still have an Ask An Adventurer for you this weekend! As you’re reading this, my girlfriend and I have arrived in tropical Williamsburg, VA, and are already suffering carpal tunnel syndrome from signing over 300 postcards! I’m pretty sure that’s at least how many we have to sign. It’s gonna suck, boy howdy.
I mean, it currently is sucking?
I hate writing future posts.
Translation: What I lack in depth perception I make up for with death perfection!!
+1
Well played.
That’s deep.
indeed
@Insufferable Nerd
@laughingsnarl
Both of your avatars suit your comments perfectly.
I’ll bet he is a sore loser
but isn’t the abomination more of a green cyclops?
This is the same runic text that appears above the corruptor beast on Chapter 35 Page 13. My gut instinct, because this is T Campbell, the guy who made oversized crossword puzzles instead of drawing his comic (more than once), is that this is a cryptogram and not just a bunch of random squigglies.
Unfortunately, without more context, it’s quite hard. There are a lot of plausible solutions. Best I’ve got is:
NOW HELL IS A PART OF US
…However that’s not really worth being a hidden message. I keep wanting to think the fifth word is BARD. But I can’t make it work.
Hell is actually a bard? That explains so much!
that sounds like an awesomely successful intelligence check you just pulled there! NATURAL 20!
Why, it does seem to fit with the squiggles – which means it’s probably right. How did you find out what the text was?
LockeZ’s easy guide to cryptogram mastery:
Step one: Realize that the word that’s only one letter is either A or I
Step two: Solve the rest of the cryptogram
Have you tried it on the fragments on page 13? Is there any symbol re-use?
(“Why, yes! I am too lazy and shiftless to do it myself. However did you know?”)
The page 13 stuff is the same as this page, which means LockeZ’s possible meaning is actually more likely.
Or Pylgrim’s, below.
Ta.
Nah, it translates as, “Satan says, ‘Eat Cheez Whiz!’ “
BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
it says, “drink more ovaltine”
I think I got it, thanks for the hints. YOU WILL BE A PART OF ME.
Ovalteen, grinding up teens since forever. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nice.
This makes so much more sense. A+.
Now, since it’s a hidden message, I’m wondering if it is more meaningful than just a battlecry. Will the creatures absorbed by the corruptor beast become part of its consciousness? Are their souls sealed within it, rather than just deleted? Is it like Voldemort’s wand and all the souls it ate will be set free when it’s killed, including souls of people from Cyberia, including Payet Best?
Or did we get the message wrong and it’s actually YOU KISS ‘ER, A HARD-ON H.R.?
Loving the cat ears in panel 1. Shame they got digested shortly thereafter.
I think that was meant to be the “ASK AN ADVENTURER!” banner typically hung up behind the desk. I do prefer you interpretation, however.
Abominable
Abnomable.
Abdominal.
Amendable
Amenities
Adderall.
Alliteral
Allegorical?
Dammitol.
Which reminds me that I have to renew my prescription soon.
What do think the abomination is? a virus?
A piece of code the cultists tampered with, transforming it into an asian tentacle monster. I mean, it’s totally obvious :-)
I really feel like I’ve got a much better understanding of his character.
Wait, the abomination looks more like an it. My bad. I hope it doesn’t eat me.
Welcome to Virginia! We’re experiencing some technical difficulties in the weather generators. We hope to have them fixed soon.
Poor guy indeed. Remembering what Brother Tom said in a Consult a Cultist segment the Cult of the Countless limps consider death a destination and that said destination is a gift. As such if they realize what they summoned even they may be horrified as the beast does not offer death but true oblivion. Robbing the beasts victims not only of life but the destination of death as well.
‘Dear Czar, I find your lack of earnestness disturbing. Sincerely, The Green Horror.
P.S.: My friends call me Greeny.’
I concur with: “YOU WILL BE A PART OF ME”
Oh look, its learning to communicate!
Every language, as primitive it may be, has its expletives.
Evidently, it has enough depth perception to at least judge how far it has to reach a tentacle in order to grab its next meal…
Does it? Look at it missing twice in panel two.
Panel 2 looks like it’s going for the skull-candles on the table. I just can’t tell for certain about the candle on the right because it’s hidden by the cultist’s word balloon, but the candle is there in the 1st panel. By the 3rd panel, that part of the table is hidden by the cultist it grabbed & the 4th panel the whole table is gone.
Besides, in most video games, it really doesn’t matter which direction an aggro-beast is facing…You get close enough & it’ll turn on you anyway.
WAIT! I just realized- the beast dissolves anything it touches, right? EXCEPT for … WORD BALLOONS!! Rise up and defeat thy for with word balloons, adventurers!!!
I’m going to go with it does. Panel two is open to interpretation. And the thought of the beast just off offhandedl… tentacly(?) grabbing the cultist by the mouth to demonstrate its depth perception is just more humorous to me.
He’s just so angry because everything he touches turns to gol…. non-existence.
Correlating this to Star Trek (Original Series), as everything does…
The beast learning to speak would be the equivalent of the ‘No kill I’ melted into the rock by the
Horta, in the episode where they meet all the little rock eating beasties….
Eli…